Baumet v. United States

SWAN, Chief Judge.

This is an action brought against the United States pursuant to the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, 38 U.S.C.A. § 817, to recover the proceeds of a $10,000 policy issued to William Baumet, Jr., who died in military service in October 1942. The plaintiff is the insured serviceman’s father. Cross-claims were filed by several intervenors, and the United States admitted its liability and its readiness to pay such person as the court should adjudge entitled. The first cross-claimant was John J. Peters, a maternal uncle of the insured and the “designated”…